Former White House administrator, Harvard lecturer to speak at Pizza & Politics
Janel Shoun |
Lipscomb University’s Pizza & Politics series will present Elaine Kamarck, one of the architects of the “reinventing government” plan during Pres. Bill Clinton’s administration and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, on Thursday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in the Swang Building, room 108.
Kamarck will speak on the topic, “Is American Government Broken Beyond Repair: Jobs, Religion and the Great American Recession.”
Kamarck is the author of "The End of Government As We Know It: Policy Implementation in the 21st Century" and "Primary Politics: How Presidential Candidates Have Shaped the Modern Nominating System."
She is a lecturer in public policy who came to the Kennedy School in 1997 after a career in politics and government. In the 1980s, she was one of the founders of the New Democrat movement that helped elect Bill Clinton president. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1997, where she created and managed the Clinton Administration's National Performance Review, also known as reinventing government.
At the Kennedy School she served as director of visions of governance for the 21st century and as faculty advisor to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2000, she took a leave of absence to work as senior policy advisor to the Gore campaign.
She conducts research on 21st century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defense, intelligence reorganization, and governmental reform and innovation.